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The holidays are here and airports are busier than ever - thousands of airplanes taking off and landing. Passengers and people living around airports are reminded that the airplane is not the quietest mode of transportation; certainly not as quiet as a sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer. Fear not, because even while travellers are heading home, Nasa continues working with others in industry and academia on technologies that will create a more silent night (and day) around airports....

Three Mile Island, Challenger, Chernobyl and now, Deepwater Horizon. Like those earlier disasters, the destruction of the drilling rig was an accident waiting to happen. Here, engineers in the growing science of failure analysis identify seven fatal flaws that led to the oil spill in the gulf of mexico and draw lessons on how to prevent future catastrophes.Special report by Carl Hoffman Additional reporting by Davin Coburn...

If you own a large property and are worried about potential intruders in dark corners, place strips of white
reflective (chevron) tape along gates, walls and other areas. Used in conjunction with a CCTV camera equipped
with infrared, the strips are amazingly effective at showing up suspicious activity....

To reach America's most promising oil patch since Alaska's North Slope, contributing editor Carl Hoffman flew 320 km south of Galveston, Texas, by helicopter, deep into the Gulf of Mexico. There, roughnecks on the latest high-tech drilling rig accomplish daily what was considered to be impossible just a decade ago: tap potentially vast petroleum reserves that lie beneath 2 400 m of water....